Have you ever really thought just how absurd the idea of
parking tickets or even the act of paying for parking is? I am not referring to paying to park on a private lot that someone has set up as a business, but instead paying to park on public streets and public lots. To be honest I having trouble even trying to comprehend how charging such a fee is even legal.
To start lets take a look at a parking space. Most of these spaces are on streets that we have paid to be developed and paved with our
tax dollars… so in effect they are our streets. Next the government takes more of our tax dollars and buys some paint and an electronic device where you have to deposit money to allow you to park on your street. After this the government takes some more of your tax dollars and hires people to take the paint you bought and paint some lines to outline where you are allowed to park and then another person to come and install the electronic device for you to deposit money into. After you have paid for this and it is all set up the government uses even more of your money to power the electronic device and have the lines repainted from time to time. If this was not enough, the government turns around and takes some more of your tax dollars and hires people to walk around and make sure that you have put money into the machine you paid for to park in the outlined spot you paid to have paved and painted, and if this person who’s salary you are paying finds you have not paid to park on your land they grab a ticket pad and a pen which you also paid for and write you up a ticket so that you have to pay even more money.
This whole situation has me pretty perplexed to say the least. I think we the people should take a stand against this seemingly illegal practice and unite together and all refuse to pay to park on our land, and when we get tickets all refuse to pay the tickets. If the entire population adopts this procedure I can’t imagine a scenario where we will not win and defeat the government in their blatant abuse of the people who not only make them what they are by voting them in, but who also fund them and their projects.
More summaries about the The Absurdity of Parking Tickets